Brig. Gen. Esmail Qaani, head of the foreign-ops Quds Force division of Iran’s terrorist Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), surfaced in Iraq on Saturday for meetings with Shiite militia groups loyal to Tehran. Qaani’s visit was part of a complex power struggle over the Iraqi prime minister’s office.
Qaani kept a low profile throughout much of the U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran. He seemed to disappear entirely in March, leading to speculation he had been killed by an airstrike, but he sent a congratulatory message to his forces in early April for supposedly administering “regrettable lessons to the enemies of humanity.”
Qaani’s predecessor, Brig. Genl Qassem Soleimani, was liquidated by a U.S. airstrike near the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, in January 2020. Soleimani was in Iraq to coordinate attacks on American positions with Iran’s puppet Shiite militia groups, most of which became deputy members of the Iraqi military under the
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